Flyer created to publicize the conference held on February 5, 2011 at Claremont Graduate University. The conference was sponsored by the Singer Foundation and the LDS Mormon Studies Council and featured Claudia Bushman, Aileen Clyde and Emily...
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Program for the conference held at the Balch Auditorium on the Scripps College Campus, February 5, 2011.
The conference was sponsored by the Singer Foundation, LDS Council on Mormon Studies, Claremont School of Religion, Claremont Mormon Studies...
Author discusses the importance of women's blogs in recent years. Especially to feminist Mormon women who discuss everything from the triumphs and challenges of motherhood to the conflicting ideals that feminism and Mormonism present. The author...
Kate Holbrook discusses the stories of women she has known who have exercised a bishopric, including a British Relief Society president who led relief convoys into war zones, an Episcopalian priest's ministry to the homeless, and a billionaire oil...
The author discusses women's ability to be both a Christian and a Theologian equal to men revealing a clear tension as to whether or not women can do theology in an LDS context.
Handout by: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
Mormon History Association Meeting,
Killington, Vermont May 27, 2005,
Mormon Women in the History of Second Wave Feminism
Author discusses selected themes in the history of second-wave feminism in connection with Mormon feminism while focusing on the emergence of feminist groups, the discovery of history, and the double bind of identity politics where Mormon feminists...
Conference flyer: "Mormonism through the eyes of women: envisioning new spaces for theology and practice." Featured speakers, Claudia L. Bushman, Margaret Merrill Toscano, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Albrecht Auditorium - Claremont Graduate...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Blogs; Feminism; Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Lectures and lecturing
Caroline Kline presents a paper that discusses the ways feminist Mormon blog posts about Heavenly Mother manifest women's religious ambivalence. She finds that Mormon women on these blogs innovate in their religious practice and in their theology...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Dioceses; Hunt, Swanee; Little, Deborah Whiting; Second-wave feminism; Religious gatherings; Lectures and lecturing
Kate Holbrook presents a paper that tells the stories of women she has known who have exercised a bishopric, including a British Relief Society president who led relief convoys into war zones, an Episcopalian priest's ministry to the homeless, and...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Second-wave feminism; Women's history; Equal rights amendments; Women authors; Eve (Biblical figure); Leadership; Political activists; Lectures and lecturing
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich presents a paper that situates the history of “Exponent Women” and other contemporary Latter-day Saints (LDS) groups in the context of the larger history of grassroots feminism.
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Theology; Education; Writing; Oral histories; Chautauquas; Interviews; Congresses and conventions; Contemplation; Lectures and lecturing
Claudia L. Bushman introduces a roundtable discussion by suggesting what Latter-day Saints (LDS) women can do to enlarge their spheres. The participants add their best practical and blue-sky ideas.
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Theology; Hafen, Bruce C.; Hafen, Marie K.; Maxwell, Neal A.; Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887; Woodruff, Wilford, 1807-1898; Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844; Smith, Emma Hale; Smith, Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding),...
Deidre Green presents a paper that opens a fruitful consideration of what Latter-day Saints (LDS) women’s relationship to theology has been in the past and what it can be in the future.
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Theology; Heaven; Salvation; Eve (Biblical figure); Adam (Biblical figure); Patriarchy; Man-woman relationships; Lectures and lecturing
Sheila Taylor presents a paper that will examine the role of gender in the Latter-day Saints (LDS) understanding of salvation. In particular, she will look at what is involved in the redemption from the Fall, considering possible connections...
Margaret Merrill Toscano presents a paper that explores the implications for contemporary Latter-day Saints (LDS) women of the Mormon concept of divine embodiment.
